ALP defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon has used his first visit to the US to call for an escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
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Executive Action: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro
By Fabian Escalante
Ocean Press, 2006
RRP $28, 229 pages
By Fabian Escalante
Ocean Press, 2006
RRP $28, 229 pages
Below is a July 10 statement from the Committees in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). For more information, visit http://cispes.org.
Soon after Australian government adviser Professor Ross Garnaut presented his draft climate change review on July 4, world leaders gathered in a Japanese mountain resort for an expanded version of the annual G8 summit meeting.
With the victory of an unlikely opposition candidate in the June 29 election for prefect (governor) of Chuquisaca, the number of opposition-controlled prefectures increased to seven out of nine.
On July 17, 50 people heard Dr Mohamed Haneef聮s lawyer, Peter Russo, launch a guide to Australia聮s 聯anti-terror聰 legislation in Bankstown Town Hall.
The Peruvian capital of Lima, faced with rapidly rising costs of living, was the epicentre of the protests on July calling for fulfilment of social and wage agreements signed by the government on July 9. Although only one violent incident occurred, some 200 demonstrators were arrested.
In November 2006, the G20 鈥 the finance ministers from the 20 biggest economies 鈥 plus representatives from the World Bank, met in Melbourne. They were met with protests.
On June 11, the axe of Nicaragua聮s Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) came down on the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) and the Conservative Party of Nicaragua (PCN).
Raul Molina 聴 a former Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) candidate for mayor of Guatemala City, an academic and a refugee advocate now resident in the US 聴 addressed a public meeting on July 4.
聯Member countries of Petrocaribe, the Caribbean energy integration organisation that Venezuela initiated in 2005, agreed Sunday to adjust the terms of financing for the purchase of Venezuelan oil in order to lower the impact of soaring oil prices on Caribbean countries聰, according to a July 15 Venezuelanalysis.com report.
Venezuela has won Miss Universe again. Meanwhile, my friend in Bolivia wrote on her blog that day, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know if anyone as big as me deserves to be alive鈥.
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